The current projected path takes Florence toward the US coast, and has her making landfall in North Carolina in the afternoon on Thursday, September 13. We encourage anyone in the path of these storms to prepare themselves and to heed the warnings of State and Local officials.

Panovich said he expects Florence to approach the southeast coast on Thursday.

Hurricane Florence's winds jumped up from 75 mph to 130 mph in just 25 hours, according to the Weather Channel. Its center will move between Bermuda and the Bahamas on Tuesday and Wednesday and approach the coast of SC or North Carolina on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said. Two other storms also are churning in the Atlantic.

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"We are preparing for the worst, and of course hoping for the best", added McMaster in his own press release, adding that he made his declaration early to ensure that state agencies could deploy assets quickly.

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National Weather Service officials in Honolulu urged residents to remain careful, noting that the difference between a Category 1 hurricane and a tropical storm is just 5 miles per hour wind speed.

It would be the first category four storm to hit the region since Hugo ravaged North Carolina in 1989, wreaking $7bn (£5.3bn) in damage and claiming 49 lives.

The map below, published by the NOAA, shows the most likely arrival time over the next few days.

If it makes landfall in North Carolina as a Category 4 storm, it will be the largest storm to hit the state since Hurricane Hazel in 1954.

"This storm gets stronger and stronger" on its way to a head-on impact with a zone that ranges some 80 miles, Myers said. The cone of uncertainty this far out in the forecast period stretches over 400 miles since landfall is not expected until Thursday night.

Meteorologists are forecasting that Florence will continue to pick up speed before making its landfall between SC and North Carolina on Thursday as a category 3 or higher hurricane.

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Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 30 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles. North and SC are expected to be hardest hit on Thursday, with evacuations ordered by South Carolina's governor Henry McMaster.

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